10 Greatest Drum Performances In Rock Music History

Much has been said about the disaster that came with making the Foo Fighters' second album The Colour and the Shape. While Dave Grohl was able to track most of the debut himself, this is where the real growing pains set in, where he found himself redoing most of the drum parts because he wasn't happy with what William Goldsmith was doing with the tracks. Then again, it's kind of unfair to ask someone to nail something like Everlong on their first time in the studio with you.

Compared to the more fundamental drumming he was used to doing in Nirvana, this entire song is practically an endurance test for most drummers, taking the basic groove and putting it at a much faster tempo than anyone could truly master. Dave has always likened writing songs on guitar to different parts of a drumset, but hitting all of these accents at the right time is something you really need to build up to, otherwise you'll end up getting tendonitis or falling off the rails fairly quickly.

For as fast as the song is though, the actual beat almost doesn't feel like it belongs in rock and roll at all, with the constant hi hat hits feeling like they're suited for disco. So yeah, this is definitely a song that could play out of Studio 54 back in the day...that is, if you drank about 19 Red Bulls before you got behind the drum kit. It might be the speed metal version of dance music, but you can still hear the soul being poured into every single hit.